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Prison Unit Helps Inmates Prepare for Freedom

News Channel 3 By News Channel 3 Staff Every morning, Amelia Stem wakes up, pulls her clothes from the closet and gets ready for work. S...

Medicaid’s New Prisoner Population

FoxBusiness.com By Kate Rogers Under the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid, 25 states and the District of Columbia have broaden their ...

Opinion: Hiring Returning Citizens Is Good for Business

Chicago Tribune By Jamie Dimon and Arne Duncan Even as the labor market tightens and more than 6 million U.S. jobs remain unfilled, the search f...

Iowa Officials: Too Many Ex-Offenders Return to Prison

The Des Moines Register By Kathy A. Bolten Deb Theeler spent 52 months in prison in the early 2000s — only to find out when she was paroled that...

Watch: Employ Milwaukee Second Chance Highlights

Employ Milwaukee This video from Employ Milwaukee in Wisconsin highlights the partnership between corrections and workforce syst...

Entrepreneurship May Be Key to Cutting Prison Costs

Tallahassee Democrat By Stephany Bittar and Val Rodriguez Recidivism — the tendency for a formerly incarcerated person to re-offend and return t...

Opinion: Integrating the Social Safety Net into America’s Prisons

Salon By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson President Trump signed the First Step Act into law on December 21. The legislation represen...

Work for Success Causes More than 1,000 Businesses to Hire Nearly 2,000 New Yorkers

Riverheadlocal.com Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced updated placement numbers and other significant accomplishments in connecting formerly ...

Opinion: Tightening Access to Criminal Records

BusinessWest.com By Brad McDougall The Massachusetts Legislature recently passed a criminal-justice reform bill that narrows the ability of empl...

Solano Program Graduates Embrace New Life

The Reporter By Melissa Murphy "I am accepting the new me." "The new me is not scared or afraid of taking on new challenges," said Ashland Ti...

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